{"id":2122,"date":"2006-02-19T00:49:27","date_gmt":"2006-02-19T07:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/02\/19\/quote-real-liberty\/"},"modified":"2006-02-19T00:49:27","modified_gmt":"2006-02-19T07:49:27","slug":"quote-real-liberty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=2122","title":{"rendered":"Quote: Real Liberty"},"content":{"rendered":"
People who construe liberty [primarily in terms of political freedoms] are highly privileged: they don’t realize the real constraints on most people’s freedom–poverty and drudgery. In the most fundamental sense liberty is just the absence of physical constraint. Most people don’t have that privilege: work for most means being physically constrained, being confined to a small space–at a desk, behind a counter, at a check-out stand, at best, in a room. You punch in in the morning and there you stay–every day like a long plane flight–until you punch out. Most people have little choice about the work they do. They’re also mentally constrained, doing repetitious tasks that make it impossible to think about anything else–inputting data, dealing with customers, answering phones. […]<\/p>\n

The whole aim of liberalism is to see it that people have options–that no one is stuck doing the drudge work I did permanently because they don’t come from rich families. The market won’t make that happen–that is simply an empirical fact. […]<\/p>\n

Liberalism is about liberty–real liberty: the provision of real options for people so that they don’t have to do jobs like this if they’re prepared to make the effort to get education and training.<\/p>\n

–H.E., The Enlightenment Project<\/a><\/em><\/div>\n

(Curtsy: Majikthise<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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